Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 245, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1915 — Corn Crop In Lake County Badly Damaged By Frost. [ARTICLE]

Corn Crop In Lake County Badly Damaged By Frost.

Lake County Star. It is quite certain after an examination has been made, that a great amount of the com crop was badly damaged by last week’s heavy frost. Now and .then there are fields that were entirely past the danger line, hut much was caught with the freeze which will mean considerable soft com. Newton Burge, residing near Merrillville, is confident that nearly half of the crop in tihe county has been badly damaged, and that when it is gathered it will prove to be the poorest crop harvested in twenty years.